Clip or fastener



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CLIP OR FASTENER Filed Nov. 9, 1943 Ill awe/M104 Patented :Sept. '25, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE our on FASTENEB Arthur E. Camp Barkeley, Tex. Application November 9, 1943, Serial No. 509,588 1 1 Claim. ('01. 24-218) This invention relates to a spring clip or fastener to be employed in lieu of set screws and similar devices, and has'for the primary object the provision of an eilicient and inexpensive clip or fastener which will secure against separation one object from another object, wherein the objects fit one within the other and which may be,

ject and secured thereto by .a fastener or clip constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a'fragmentary longitudinal sectiona1 view illustrating the connection of the clip or fastener with one of the objects and located within a recess'provided in said latter-named object.

Figure 3 is a side elevation illustrating a modified form of my invention applied to objects one fitting within the other.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view illustrating a modified form of the in vention.

character provided with a bore 8 to receive an object I in the form of a.pin. The object at necting portions 2| and then bent to form the arms 20.

The resilient connecting portion IQ of the fastener or clip will permit the parallel portions I! to be manually spread apart so that they may be arranged within the grooves 9 locating the conncting portion l9 and the connecting portions 2| in the recess 8 of the object 5 andwith the ends of the arms bearing against the walls of the recess 8.

Sockets 22 are formed in-the walls of the recess 8 to receive the ends of the arms 20, the

latterbeing forced into said sockets by the spring action within the connecting portions 2|. With the parallel portions l8 fitted within the groove 9 and the ends of the arms within the sockets 22, the objects 5 and 'I will be securely fastened together against separation.

It will be noted that the spring clip or fastener l0 when applied as shown in Figures 1 and 2 will lie wholly within the recess 8 and thereby will not provide an obstruction outwardly of either one end of the bore'teis provided with arecess 8 in which oneiend of the pin I is confined; To

secure against displacement of the object or pin 1 from the object 5, the pin I is provided adjacent one endor the end confinedwithin the recess? with parallel grooves 9 to receive a spring clip or fastener "constructed in accordance with the present invention. I w

The spring clip or fastener. HI includes straight parallelportions l8 joined by a spring connect- 'ing portion is. The spring 'clip or fastener fur-- ther includes spring a '20 extending oppositely to each other a d are connected to the parallel straight portions l8 by curved spring portions 2!. The fastener or clip In may beconstructed from a single length of resilient metal first bent upon itself to form the connecting portion l9, then bent to form the parallel straight portions l8 and then bent to form the curved conof thembjects and consequently will be protected by said objects from injury or damage.

--Referring to my modified form of the invention as shown in Figures 3 and 4, the recess 8 in the object 5 is omitted and the sockets 22 are arranged in ,one face of the object I and the pin or object 1 having the grooved end arranged beond said face of the object 5. The spring clip /or fastener is arranged on the pin or object 1 as heretofore described in/ connection with Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing and in this instance the fastener or clip has right angularly disposed extensions 23 formed on the arms 20 adapted to engage in the sockets 22in the face of the object 5. The fastener or clip thus applied to the object 5 and the pin 1 will prevent separation of said parts. f 'As shown in Figures 2 and 4 a'washer 24 may be arranged between the spring clip or fastener and the object 5. Thus it will be seen that a very inexpensive spring clip or fastener has been provided and which may be quickly applied to either object and will be self-sustaining in position on said objects and prevent one object from detaching from the other object.

The connecting. portions. 19 and II of. the clip or fastener 10 provide restrictions at the ends of the straight parallel. portions It to prevent the latter from being moved accidentally out of the grooves 9 in an endwise direction of said straight s,ses,sos

ends of said parallel portions, other resilient portions extending outwardly in opposite directions tra n the ends of said inwardly ofl'set portions and curving backward to points in the plane of the derstood that minor chances in construction. combination and arrangement of partsmay be I made without'departinz from the spirit and scope' *oi' the invention claimed. v

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, a sprinz clip iormed'oi' a single length or wire bent to provide a ilat body havinastraizht parallel portions adapted for seating in groove oformed in opposite sides of an object, a. resilient portion Joining said parallel portions at one of their ends, inwardly oiiset portions termed at the'opposite.

transverse centers of said parallel portions, arms extendin: outwardly in opposite directions from the ends or said other resilient portions and in right angular relation with respect to said parallel portions, and extensions formed at the tree ends of said arms, at right angles to the plane of said body, to seat in sockets formed in a second object. 1

ARTHUR E. COX. 

